Part 5 - Appendix 2 - Protocol on the relationship between Officers and Members of Gloucestershire County Council
Appendix 2 - protocol on the relationship between Officers and Members of Gloucestershire County Council of the Code of Conduct for Employees.
- Introduction
- The role of elected Members - The role of County Councillors as Members of full Council and Council bodies
- The standing of County Councillors as individual Members of the Council
- Other roles of County Councillors
- The role of Officers - The role of Officers in the course of their employment
- Contact between Officers and Members other than in the course of Officers’ employment
- Sources of difficulty
- Political neutrality - Supporting the work of the Council
- Lobbying Members
- Giving advice and providing information
- Confidentiality
- Dealing with the Press
- Member pressure on Officers
- Blurring of Officers and Members public and private roles
- The role of Group Leaders and senior Officers
- Conclusion
- The range of Members’ legitimate perspectives when discharging their different roles and responsibilities and the potential for contact between Officers and Members in a variety of circumstances, creates a variety of situations that have the potential to cause both groups difficulties. There are three principal sources of conflict:
(i) Actual or apparent failure by Officers to act in accordance with the principle of political neutrality;
(ii) Unreasonable pressure by Members on Officers;
(iii) Blurring of Officers’ and Members’ public and private roles.
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12/10/2020